Abstract
Contents A Note on Transliteration Acknowledgments Introduction: The Literary Response to Conscription and the Persistence of Enlightenment in Russian-Jewish Culture 1. Stepchildren of the Tsar: Jewish Cantonists and the Official Origins of Russian Jewry 2. Great Expectations: The Beginnings of Cantonist Literature and the Emancipation of Russian-Jewish Consciousness 3. The Romance of Enlightenment: Gender and the Critique of Embourgeoisement in the Recruitment Novels of I. M. Dik, Grigorii Bogrov, and J. L. Gordon 4. Return of the Native: The Nicholaevan Universe of Sh. J. Abramovich and the Enlightenment Origins of Russian-Jewish Populism 5. Dead Children of the Hebrew Renaissance: The Conscription Story as Nationalist Myth 6. The Writing of Conscription History and the Making of the Russian-Jewish Diaspora Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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